Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here Page #2

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That was and a ... That was a Fight That I Won.

Dave SAW a Record That HAD Those two Songs and Shine On,

and IT felt cobbled Together to me.

It did not Feel Like Real.

And SO at some Point in Process That, yeah,

I Came up with the idea of, "No, this Has to be thematic,"

and That's the way I expressed IT.

This Will make this a More coherent work,

Because IT's and More coherent,

We've Been working on Boom Together and go, there you are, That's IT .

There's one's That Song About Syd, but the rest of IT Is not.

It's a much More Universal expression of my feelings

About Absence ...

.. Because I felt That We Were not really there,

We Were very absent.

I Remembered IT.

# Come in here, dear Boy Have a Cigar

# You're gonna go far. #

"Come in here and have a Cigar,"

you know, and Become a Star and Become Immortal.

# You're gonna make IT if you try

# They're gonna Love you. #

You Become Part of the Whole Buying and selling Machine.

It's High.

I ??Think the Lyrics SO much Sum up the recording Business.

Rock 'n' roll, MAN.

# Come in here, dear Boy Have a Cigar

# You're gonna go far. #

The Record companies Were ... they were all-powerful, in a way.

No-one Worked without a Record Deal in Those days,

so they had a lot of power.

You're not really an Individual longer any More,

You're just ... you're a cipher,

You're Playing a Part, You're a puppet.

You're not your Own MAN.

# The weather's just fantastic That is really What I Think

# Oh , by the way Which one's Pink? #

By the way, Which one is Pink?

Which one's Pink?

Which one's Pink?

# And We did tell you The Name of the game, Boy?

# We call IT Riding the gravy train. #

It was felt Syd That's partly Madness HAD Come About

through the Demands of the Record Industry.

"You've HAD a hit, now I Want you to do Another hit."

"I Want Another hit you, and I want another hit. "

"And That's not as Good as your Last hit."

"That's not as good as your last record, "you know,

"And I Want you to do a Show Bigger and More Lights have

"and More People."

I Mean, IT's ...

"Hey, All I wanted to do is to play a guitar

"and write a Song, and Suddenly I'm in the Middle of All this."

The Star thing does not make ... doesn't make you happy, you know.

That, the Star thing, you CAN make Want to Withdraw from Society.

# It's awfully considerate of you To Think of me here

# And I'm Most Obliged to you For making IT Clear

# That I'm not here. #

Well, you Could Argue That Syd was Burned by the Music Business,

but Actually, He was Probably Burned more by us.

# And I Never Knew the moon ... #

Sort of Syd HAD gone off the idea of doing Top Of The Pops,

Sort of Being and Commercial.

# .. Shoes and Brought me here. #

I Think IT was not the Record Company Putting the pressure on, IT was us

Putting the pressure on , because that's the way we wanted to go.

# I do not Care If the sun does not shine

# And I do not Care If nothing is mine

# And I do not Care If I'm Nervous with you

# I'll do My loving in the Winter. #

# Come in here, dear Boy Have a Cigar

# You're gonna go far

# Fly High ... #

With Have A Cigar,

both of Them Knew That Neither of Them Could Sing IT.

I Always Thought That Dave's Voice was not Deep Enough.

# I've Always HAD a Deep Respect I Mean That Most Sincerely. #

Yeah, That's Dave.

# I Think the Band's fantastic That is really What I Think

# By the way, Which one's Pink? #

That's Roger.

They wanted the Ferocity Which Gives Roger on Other Tracks.

"Come in here, dear Boy, have a Cigar.

"You're gonna go far."

Roy was definitely one of the Great characters around for a Lot

of Our Early ... Our Early life, really.

We Used to do quite a Lot of Shows where Roy Would be on the bill.

A Good Guy to have around.

I was in Studio 2 and they were in Studio 3 .

I Think Roy was rather Actually ...

.. lacking in Momentum Himself.

I Think We Were ...

It did not seem to Affect Only Pink Floyd.

You know, That's why I have this vision,

I guess, of me Being in and out All the time, in and out, in and out.

Very expensive recording time That He Would Spend just

in Our Control Room chattering and ...

Anyway, I digress.

Roger was really Struggling with IT,

and then Dave ... then they both tried.

There was a Lot of arguing About How We Were going to do I

and how we were going to make it work.

At one Point Roy, Who was in the Room, Piped up and said ...

I just said, "I'll do IT if you Like, for a price."

# I've Always HAD a Deep Respect and I mean that most sincerely

I Mean, Roy really put this in HIS Heart.

I Mean, I CAN Picture HIM now ...

# Which one's Pink? #

.. Putting HIS Heart and Soul in to IT,

as if HIS life depended on IT.

# You gotta Get an album out You Owe IT to the People

# We're SO Happy We Hardly CAN count. #

I Mean, the Lyrics ...

If I'd have Written Those Lyrics, I'd Feel well pleased.

# And We did tell you The Name of the game, Boy

# We call the IT Riding gravy train. #

It was Played Millions of times around the World as a single.

That was My vocals on a .. . You know, really ...

a kind of a number one selling single.

Everybody Thought IT was Roger.

I was a bit peed off About That.

if I Think I'd Sung IT, IT Would be More vulnerable

and Cynical less than the way He did IT.

But That's not the way Roy sings.

He Went off and did IT and did a Great job, and thank you very much.

I do not Think Roger liked his version terribly much,

but I Think HIS version is the perfect version.

He was a Singing Sort of parody , anyway ...

.. Which I do not Like. I never liked it.

The Worst of IT is That Sometimes When I'm doing,

you know, When I'm doing a gig ...

.. there's some wag'll shout, "Have A Cigar", you know.

I Regret IT, and That's not

cos I've got anything Against Roy, I have not, you know.

I Think if I'd persevered with IT, Would I have Done Better IT.

# Come in here, dear Boy Have a Cigar

# You're gonna go far

# You're gonna fly High

# You're gonna Never Die You're gonna make IT if you try

# They're gonna Love you. #

I was SO unbelievably thrilled

to be there, and I was just very Young,

I was just About 21.

There is Actually a rather nice Picture of me

That took Nick Mason, and IT Sort of Sums up, Because I just Look

Wide-Eyed and,

you know, thrilled is the Only Word, I Think.

I'd Baked some fairy Cakes,

and I thought it would be a good idea to bring them to the studio.

There's this wonderful Sequence of Roger Proving That He did

Enjoy the cake.

That I Think Nick took These Pictures,

Because I can not imagine That I had the courage to sort of,

you know, Take Them, but Perhaps I did.

Roger is in the driving seat in these pictures,

as far as the Studio's Concerned, and Perhaps Position That is hard.

But , actually, it's probably better

if just one person is in the Driving seat.

Roger, Actually, you know , kept a tight hold on the helm,

and That's What He - That's What He did.

And, you know, you can't gainsay that,

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